USN-1763-2: NSPR update

nspr update

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Ubuntu 12.10

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Ubuntu 11.10

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

NSPR update to work with the new NSS.

Software Description

nspr - NetScape Portable Runtime Library

Details

USN-1763-1 fixed a vulnerability in NSS. This update provides the NSPR
needed to use the new NSS.

Original advisory details:

Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson discovered that the TLS protocol as used
in NSS was vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the
“Lucky Thirteen” issue. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform
plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: